HeinzelCheeseTalk no 18: We went Italian. And Drunk. Friday, September 25, 2015
Heinzelcheese takes German and Austrian mountain cheese as well as a selection Rhine Riesling down to the Slow Food Cheese fair in Bra/Piemont, and promises to return with the finest, most unusual...
View ArticleHeinzelCheeseTalk no 19: Poland and Greece in form of cheese and wine....
Poland and Greece - what do those have in common, you're probably wondering. Well, nothing in particular except for the fact that I'm first traveling up north and east, and then going down south -...
View ArticleCheese Berlin 2015! November 1st!! With Lots of Specials…
What a weekend - the Markthalle Neun was full of cheese, cheese makers, cheesemongers, cheese lovers - in short, you! For a whole, long day (11-19h), local, regional, national, international stuff was...
View ArticleHeinzelCheeseTalk no 20: Poland. This time for real… Friday Nov 20, 6pm
After all the wonderful excitement of Cheese Berlin, here comes a "regular" HeinzelCheeseTalk at "our" table opposite the Suff winestall at Markthalle Neun. On that table: three totally not regular,...
View ArticleHeinzelCheeseTalk no 21: Goat, Sheep, Buffalo and Cow – let’s compare....
We might occasionally act sheepish, and sometimes we are real cowards... but can we really taste the difference between different kinds of milk? Dear HeinzelCheeseTalk family (yes, you are my family,...
View ArticleSix bottles: Bubbles!
As promised for this year, I've been drinking... and I'd like to share these with you: Six very different bubbly bottles from France, which some would call natural whereas I'm inclined to use the word...
View ArticleHeinzelCheeseTalk Special: Greece – Tuesday (!), May 3rd, 2016
In May, the Heinzelcheese network resulted in something very special: handcrafted cheeses from the Cyclades. Complete withe local experts! And, of course, Greek wines, from one of the super stars,...
View ArticleTwo bottles: Volcanic Hungary from Robert Gilvesy
Szent György-hegy and Badacsony - no, I hadn't heard about this region either before tasting these wines. But those northern shores of Lake Balaton, west of Budapest look dreamy on pictures. And the...
View ArticleTerroir Symposium 2017 in Toronto: Celebrating Canadian Gastronomy – and...
It's been ten years since Torontonian Arlene Stein started the Terroir Symposium in her native city. About one year ago, Arlene moved to Berlin, and we met, and she invited me to speak at this year's...
View ArticleMy cheese of the month for July 2017: Mature goat cheese from Kozia Łąka Sery...
On my first research trip to Poland in August 2014, in an organic grocery store in Warsaw, I came across cheeses made by Bożena and Daniel Sokołowscy. They keep around a hundred goats on their organic...
View ArticleFour (!) cheeses of the month for July 2018, from the northern shores of Lake...
Wines from volcanic soils have become a real thing recently. Etna and Vesuvio, the Canares and Santorini, Dundee Hills and Gattinara all make for rather special aromas and textures in our wine glasses....
View ArticleHeinzelwein-Dreier im Oktober 2019: Kanada und die Schönheit im Kleinen und...
Kanada - wilde Weite, greifbare Natur. Der ständige Kampf, als Mensch darin sein Auskommen zu finden, in vielerlei Hinsicht noch ganz unmittelbar zu spüren. Und soviel Schönheit. Ich war zehn Tage in...
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